Yankees radio announcer John Sterling’s signature home run call sometimes leaves him liable to being fooled. He has to start his “It is high, it is far” call a little bit early to nail the dramatic timing, so occasionally instead of “it is gone,” he has to wrap up with “it is... off the wall” or “it is... hauled in at the track.” But Sterling has never been fooled the way he was on Wednesday night.
When Aaron Judge stepped to the plate in the third inning in Seattle, Sterling, sitting in the broadcast booth in the Bronx, saw him crush a hanging breaking ball into the upper deck.